...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
There just isn't a version of 'socialism in one country' around in the 21st century. I think it's really important that we… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder.… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet:… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“And when the ocean starts rising to the level of whatever building they're in and whatever floor they're on as they write… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
“The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.” — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Chalaby put it best when he argued that “journalism is not only an invention of the market economy, but…the narrative form… — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) — Confucius Copy Share Image
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In effect, by rejecting high-tech socialism and substituting a vision of low-tech, egalitarian socialism, this new Left strategy also resolved to quote… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image